One of the best approaches you can adopt, on your way to coping with social anxiety, is creating a thought journal. Even though it may feel silly or unnatural at first, we guarantee that it is the key to a more satisfying life. With the help of the journal, you can challenge your negative thinking patterns and then find alternative, reality-based thoughts, to replace the negativity with. This process is not always as simple as it may sound, because of 3 main mistakes, that we are prone to making. Once you have identified what they are, you can start to worry functionally, because worrying is a normal part of life, as long as it doesn’t turn into anxiety.